duenna

During the early twenties, he describes the Saturday Evening Post as being "putrid with prosperity like the bulky, diamonded duenna of a bawdy-house" ("Thoughts" 24).

The Duke and Duchess's diversion from responsibility in their constant search for entertainment becomes even more negligent when we learn that dona Leonor--the Duchess's "duenna of honour"--feels compelled to approach Don Quixote, crying for help because a squire has dishonored her daughter and the Duke and Duchess ate refusing to do her justice because they owe money to the offender's master:

Katherine Toy meanwhile also plays a mean accordion and delivers a lovely turn as the fair Roxanne's 'duenna'.

He was accompanied only by his "cidevant Duenna and Quarter Mistress General of the Seraglio and the adopted [original emphasis] daughter--alias slave child obtained at Appenam [Lombok] ..." (Ross, in "Outlines":211).

Apart from writing several books on various issues of social reform, he translated Shakespeare's plays such as The Comedy of Errors (literal and prose adaptation), The Merchant of Venice, Sheridan's plays such as The Rivals (1894) and Duenna (1885), and Aesop's Fables (1893).

By 1779 his dramatic credentials included such plays as The Rivals (1775), and the acclaimed comic opera, The Duenna (1775), and he had acquired status as Garrick's successor as manager of Drury Lane.

We called him "The Duenna" because he would escort Murray around as if the famed libertarian economist and theoretician were his personal property.

Sergei Prokofiev's opera, Betrothal in a Monastery (La Duenna), based on an eighteenth-century play, La Duenna, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), contains the individual, Isaac Mendoza, a Jew portrayed in a negative fashion.

One of the biggest popular hits of the 18th century, The Duenna was hailed by both Byron and Dr Johnson as among the great comedies of its age.

The Symphony (in memory of Pedrell), the ballet Don Quixote, First String Quartet, and the opera The Duenna followed in quick succession.

Graham Marianna B & Crum Duenna L, to Brown Lucas C; 1205 Mill St, Springfield, 97477; $150,000

Diana, a duenna, undeed aided Ned and Ann in one odd, nude deed in a dune in India: undone, Diana ended a nun in need in an Andean den, died, and dined in Eden [Roxanne Bogucka]